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[SECTION] 7<br />
GEOGRAPHY<br />
MIDDLE EAST +<br />
AFRICA (MEA)<br />
Beginning with the First Quarter, 2016 State of the Internet<br />
Report, broadband metrics are presented separately for the<br />
European region and the Middle East / Africa (mea) region<br />
(previously presented together as the emea region), with expanded<br />
coverage to include more countries in both regions. The metrics<br />
presented here for the mea region are based on a subset of data<br />
used for Section 2 and are subject to the same thresholds and filters<br />
discussed within that section. The subset used for this section includes<br />
connections identified as coming from networks in the Middle East<br />
and Africa region, based on classification by Akamai’s EdgeScape<br />
geolocation tool.<br />
7.1 MEA Average Conection Speeds (IPv4) / With an average<br />
connection speed of 13.4 Mbps in the second quarter — down 0.4%<br />
from the first quarter — Israel again had the highest average speeds<br />
among the surveyed mea countries. Israel and Qatar were the only<br />
two surveyed countries in the region to have an average connection<br />
speed above 10 Mbps, as seen in Figure 33. In contrast, Namibia posted<br />
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